The Human Shuffle: Is ChatRoulette the future of the Internet or its distant past?

Tyler Cowen:
The first time I entered ChatRoulette—a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world—I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman experience: an ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind.

That’s the premise, the actual story is at this link. Here is one excerpt:

The first eighteen people who saw me disconnected immediately.

Recommended.

So good.

Notes

  1. ronenreblogs reblogged this from chetgulland and added:
    Nahana was telling me about this the other day.. rad
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